Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?
By Gurudev Shri Amritji One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of...
Your Nervous System Was Designed to Recover
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The connection between emotions and illness is well documented and established. Many tension based illnesses can be traced to traumatic, emotionally charged events that disrupt the balancing power and self...
The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life
By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active. The state your body enters every night allows the body to restore itself without effort, while the mind is no longer organizing...
I AM Yoga: Exploring the Secrets of Life
Are you truly living in the present, or are you unconsciously re-living your past? Most of us move through life reacting to today based on fears and pleasures from yesterday. This habit creates a cycle of repetition that keeps true connection out of reach. Below,...
Connecting to the Power of Prana through the Posture of Consciousness and Meditation in Motion
You can hold a yoga shape with skill and still feel divided inside. Muscles work, and breath moves, yet a quiet conflict continues between what the mind demands and what the body needs. Gurudev Shri Amritji offers the Posture of Consciousness as a way to end this...
Breath Awareness: A Steadier Way to Move Through the Holiday Season
As the pace of the season increases, the breath often becomes the first place where change is felt. Breath mirrors the state of the nervous system, and even slight tightening or irregularity signals a shift in internal momentum. Breath awareness is one of the simplest...
Habits Are Habitat for the False Self
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiWe often think of habits as small behaviors that either help us or hold us back. Yet in yoga, habit is understood on a much deeper level. A habit is not only about what you do, it is about how your energy is being used, repeated, and...
Mental Calories: How Unseen Thoughts Weigh You Down
Written by Gurudev Shri AmritjiToday, we are careful about what we feed our physical bodies. We read labels, count calories, take supplements. But we do not apply the same care to what we mentally and emotionally feed ourselves. The thoughts we think, the judgments we...
The Root Illusion: You Think You Are Seeing the World, But You Are Seeing Your Past
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji The ego-mind operates like a projector, not a camera. It doesn’t take in life objectively—it throws out old film reels onto the present moment, coloring your perception with past emotional memory. Every time you say, “I know what this...
The Missing Link in Healing: Breaking the Cycle of Stress
Written By Gurudev Shri Amritji Stress is more than a feeling. It is a lived pattern stored in the body, reinforced by past experiences, and repeated through unconscious reactions. I AM Yoga Therapy™ works at the root of this cycle, helping you meet the places in...
I AM Yoga Therapy™: Returning to the Source of Healing
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Most people attempt to heal by fixing the symptoms. However, true healing is not in treating the outer surface; it is in returning to the Source. I AM Yoga Therapy™ is a sacred practice of remembering the wholeness that was never...
The Path of Awakening Requires Remembering
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Guru Purnima is a sacred day in the yogic tradition, observed on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashadha (June–July). It has been celebrated for thousands of years as a time to honor the guru—the spiritual teacher and inner guide...
Not Just Air: The Power of Breath
Written by Gurudev Shri Amritji Breath as Bridge Between Conscious and SubconsciousYour breath is not merely a physical function. It is the living bridge between your mind, the conscious, thinking self, and your subconscious inner body, which operates automatically...